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NASA's Reduced Gravity Program provides the unique weightless or zero-G environment of space flight for testing and training of human and hardware reactions. NASA used the turbojet KC-135A to run these parabolic flights from 1963 to 2004.
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B-52G with cruise missiles, USAF, short range attack missiles SRAMs; guided missile
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